On Need-Sets

MarcelloAug 15, 2020, 11:25 PM
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My Un­der­stand­ing of Paul Chris­ti­ano’s Iter­ated Am­plifi­ca­tion AI Safety Re­search Agenda

Chi NguyenAug 15, 2020, 8:02 PM
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Does crime ex­plain the ex­cep­tional US in­car­cer­a­tion rate?

bracesAug 15, 2020, 6:27 PM
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Self-Similar­ity Experiment

Dawn DrescherAug 15, 2020, 1:19 PM
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Map­ping Out Alignment

Aug 15, 2020, 1:02 AM
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Talk and Q&A—Dan Hendrycks—Paper: Align­ing AI With Shared Hu­man Values. On Dis­cord at Aug 28, 2020 8:00-10:00 AM GMT+8.

wassnameAug 14, 2020, 11:57 PM
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An­nounc­ing the Study Group for Progress

jasoncrawfordAug 14, 2020, 8:18 PM
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Set­ting Up a Green Screen

jefftkAug 14, 2020, 8:00 PM
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[Question] Do we have up­dated data about the risk of ~ per­ma­nent chronic fa­tigue from COVID-19?

Eli TyreAug 14, 2020, 7:19 PM
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An In­vi­ta­tion to the Guild of the Rose — Alpha (formerly the Guild of Ser­vants)

moridinamaelAug 14, 2020, 7:03 PM
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How to Lose a Fair Game

gilchAug 14, 2020, 6:41 PM
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Sun­day Au­gust 16, 12pm (PDT) — talks by Ozzie Gooen, habryka, Ben Pace

Aug 14, 2020, 6:32 PM
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The Case for Education

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:20 PM
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Room and Board for Peo­ple Self-Learn­ing ML or Do­ing In­de­pen­dent ML Research

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:19 PM
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The Best Ed­u­ca­tional In­sti­tu­tion in the World

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:18 PM
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How webs of mean­ing grow and change

HazardAug 14, 2020, 1:58 PM
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misc raw re­sponses to a tract of Crit­i­cal Rationalism

mako yassAug 14, 2020, 11:53 AM
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Petrov Day 2020 Vir­tual Celebration

konstellAug 14, 2020, 8:03 AM
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“The Con­spir­acy against the Hu­man Race,” by Thomas Ligotti

CallmesalticidaeAug 13, 2020, 11:01 PM
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Apol­ogy of (a form of) au­thor­i­tar­i­anism and in­equal­ity from an egalitarian

jybyAug 13, 2020, 9:54 PM
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Many-wor­lds ver­sus dis­crete knowledge

jessicataAug 13, 2020, 6:35 PM
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[AN #112]: Eng­ineer­ing a Safer World

Rohin ShahAug 13, 2020, 5:20 PM
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Covid 8/​13: Same As It Ever Was

ZviAug 13, 2020, 3:40 PM
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Tomb­stone Men­tal­ity

SuperDaveWhiteAug 13, 2020, 1:46 PM
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Re­peat Un­til Broke

gilchAug 13, 2020, 7:19 AM
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Sen­tence by Sen­tence: “Why Most Pub­lished Re­search Find­ings are False”

DirectedEvolutionAug 13, 2020, 6:51 AM
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This Ter­ri­tory Does Not Exist

ikeAug 13, 2020, 12:30 AM
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Imag­ine a World Where Govern­ments Treated COVID-19 Properly

jdcampolargoAug 12, 2020, 10:52 PM
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In­vest­ment idea: bas­ket of tech stocks weighted to­wards AI

ioannesAug 12, 2020, 9:30 PM
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Blog post: A tale of two re­search communities

Aryeh EnglanderAug 12, 2020, 8:41 PM
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Ra­tion­ally End­ing Discussions

Elliot TempleAug 12, 2020, 8:34 PM
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[Question] Money cre­ation and debt

AnthonyCAug 12, 2020, 8:30 PM
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How GPT-N will es­cape from its AI-box

hippkeAug 12, 2020, 7:34 PM
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Strong im­pli­ca­tion of prefer­ence uncertainty

Stuart_ArmstrongAug 12, 2020, 7:02 PM
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Align­ment By Default

johnswentworthAug 12, 2020, 6:54 PM
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Matt Botv­inick on the spon­ta­neous emer­gence of learn­ing algorithms

Adam SchollAug 12, 2020, 7:47 AM
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You Need More Money

gilchAug 12, 2020, 6:16 AM
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Zen and Ra­tion­al­ity: Trust in Mind

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 11, 2020, 8:23 PM
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[Question] Will OpenAI’s work un­in­ten­tion­ally in­crease ex­is­ten­tial risks re­lated to AI?

adamShimiAug 11, 2020, 6:16 PM
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Book re­view: Ar­chi­tects of In­tel­li­gence by Martin Ford (2018)

OferAug 11, 2020, 5:30 PM
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[Question] Utility func­tions with­out a maximum

Abhimanyu Pallavi SudhirAug 11, 2020, 12:58 PM
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Moloch and multi-level selection

thoughtfulmadisonAug 11, 2020, 7:08 AM
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Swiss Poli­ti­cal Sys­tem: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.)

Martin SustrikAug 11, 2020, 5:09 AM
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Writ­ing Pi­ano Songs: A Journey

Logan RiggsAug 10, 2020, 9:50 PM
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So­cial Dynamics

Elliot TempleAug 10, 2020, 7:29 PM
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[Question] UK Pre­dicted Grades

cwg1g16Aug 10, 2020, 5:36 PM
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[Question] What’s the ev­i­dence on fal­ling testos­teron and sperm counts in men?

Alexander Gietelink OldenzielAug 10, 2020, 8:58 AM
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Fore­cast­ing AI Progress: A Re­search Agenda

rossgAug 10, 2020, 1:04 AM
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Effect of Numpy

jefftkAug 10, 2020, 1:00 AM
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Fan­tasy-For­bid­ding Ex­pert Opinion

yamabikoAug 10, 2020, 12:01 AM
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